Scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey collaboration (SDSS) have produced the largest three-dimensional map of the sky. The final image represents only about 3% of the volume mapped, with each ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

In a groundbreaking release,the COSMOS-Web collaboration has unveiled the largest map of the universe, created from data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This extraordinary project ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now. The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb ...

“The big surprise is that with JWST, we see roughly 10 times more galaxies than expected at these incredible distances.” These are the words of Caitlin Casey, co-leader of the COSMOS-Web collaboration ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

Peering back in time more than 7 billion years, a team of astronomers using a powerful new spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has obtained the first maps showing the distribution of ...

Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because the cosmos is ruled by substances that give off no light at all. Dark ...

Schematic of the night sky areas are outlined with contour lines, similar to elevation lines on a hiking map, revealing the “fingerprints” of dark matter. A Rutgers-led team of scientists has ...